GO PAINTED BERNICLE. 



is smaller than a tame Goose : weight sixteen 

 pounds : beak narrow, short, and black : the whole 

 plumage of a dazzling snowy whiteness : on the bend 

 of the wing a blunt knob : legs yellow. The female 

 has the beak and legs the same as in the male ; 

 but the first is of a reddish flesh-colour : head, neck, 

 and body black, crossed with transverse white lines ; 

 those of the head and neck are very minute, but 

 grow broader as they proceed downwards : middle of 

 the back plain black : wing-coverts white : on the 

 bend of the wing a blunt knob : speculum green, 

 edged outwardly with white : greater quills black : 

 tail white : vent greenish-white : legs yellow. In- 

 habits Christmas Sound, in Terra del Fuego. Its 

 flesh is unfit to be eaten." Latham. 



PAINTED BERNICLE. 



(Bernicla picta.) 



BE. cmereo-nigricans, nigro transversim lincata, capite collo ab- 

 domine medio tectricibusjasciaque alarum albis. 



Dusky-ash Bernicle, transversely lineated with black, with the 

 head, neck, middle of the abdomen, coverts, and stripe on the 

 Aving, white. 



Anas picta. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 504. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 836. 



Painted Goose. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 443. 



" LENGTH twenty-eight inches : beak small, under 

 an inch and a half in length : colour black : irides 

 ash-colour : head and neck white, inclining to ash- 



